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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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Deemed by myself as being

is this a passive sentence?

You too are deemed by myself as being inferior to that which is to be deemed as important to me.
  

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Anonymous You too are deemed by myself as being inferior to that which is to be deemed as important to me. The verbs are passive. The sentence is very clunky.

  • Anonymous You too are deemed by myself as being inferior to that which is to be deemed as important to me.
  • The verbs are passive.
  • The sentence is very clunky.
  • Even in the active it is pretentious: I deem you to be inferior to that which I deem important.
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AnonymousYou too are deemed by myself as being inferior to that which is to be deemed as important to me.
The verbs are passive. The sentence is very clunky. Even in the active it is pretentious:

I deem you to be inferior to that which I deem important.

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